The Best Manga You’re Not Reading: Presents
Back in 2007, John Jakala coined the trademark-worthy phrase “comeuppance theater” to describe horror stories in which a mean, violent,…
My 10 Favorite Spooky Manga
Whether by accident or design, the very first manga I read and liked were horror titles: “The Laughing Target,” Mermaid…
Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
At some point in your travels through high school English, a teacher probably made you read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,”…
The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography
Reading The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography, I was irresistibly reminded of a quip attributed to Thomas Carlyle:…
Cat-Eyed Boy, Vols. 1-2
Kazuo Umezu’s writing defies easy categorization. His horror stories unfold in an almost haphazard fashion, seldom offering Western readers the…